"I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation."

-- Mary Schmich

#Mother Quotes #Sibling Quotes #Grief Quotes

“Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.”
“This guy makes coffee nervous.”
“As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.”
“What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.”
“Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries.”
“I was wracked with insecurity.”
“Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country". And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated.”

Source : "Professor Weighs In On Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Uninformed Voter Comment". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 6, 2016.
“Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.”

Source : Livy (1949). “Livy”

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